Best Way to Farm Experience

Leveling up in Path of Exile 2 lets you unlock new skills, improves your stats, and helps get ready for endgame content. This guide will show you the best ways to farm XP quickly, covering quests, farming zones, party play, and more.

How XP Works

You gain experience by killing enemies and completing quests. To get the most XP:

• Fight enemies close to your level. If they are too low, you will get less XP.
• Struggling with tough enemies? Farm in areas 1-2 levels below you for faster kills.
• Higher difficulties slow you down because enemies take longer to kill.

Best Ways to Farm XP

1. Complete Quests

The easiest way to gain XP is to play through the campaign. By the time you finish the story, you should be around Level 45, and close to Level 60 after playing through Cruel difficulty when you hit endgame. If you are behind, pick up and complete side quests for extra XP.

2. Farm Enemy-Dense Zones

To level up fast, you will need a build and farming strategy that work well together. Builds with strong area-of-effect (AoE) damage are great for clearing groups of enemies quickly, and movement skills help you get through zones faster. But do not forget about defense! Staying alive means less time wasted on deaths.

Some areas are packed with monsters, making them great for farming:

• Hunting Grounds: Full of enemies and ambushes, with a boss at the end.
• Dreadnought or Dreadnought Vanguard: Full of enemies and bosses.
• Jiquani’s Machinarium: A maze-like area loaded with enemies. Be careful, it is easy to get cornered. There is also a boss here.
• The Aggorat and Utzaal: Huge zones with lots of enemies.

These spots are also great to earn gold, so you can combine both XP and gold farming at the same time. To reset an area and respawn enemies, press CTRL + Left Click on the entrance and select “Reset.”

3. Focus on Speed

• Use movement-speed gear and skills to move faster.
• Do not waste time picking up useless loot.
• Combine questing with farming when possible.

4. Fight Optional Bosses

Grouping up with party members and hunting down all the optional bosses on the map can be a good way to gain experience fast. Doing this in a group will make the fights faster, and those bosses reward a lot of XP, among passive points and other useful items.

Advanced XP Farming (Endgame)

Once you hit endgame, these are the preferred methods:

• Run Maps on the Atlas (aka “Mapping”): Maps have lots of monsters and great XP rewards.
• Boss Rush: In maps, skip straight to bosses for big XP bonuses.
• Breaches: Super dense with enemies, perfect for quick XP farming.

Leagues and Events

Keep an eye out for seasonal league mechanics and special events in the future. They often add new ways to farm experience quickly.

Leveling fast in Path of Exile 2 is all about picking the right zones, having a strong build, and being quick. Try different farming spots, play with friends, and find what works best for you.